[help] sd card cannot read - General Questions and Answers

Hey guys. Can you help me? My sgy doenst recognize by my laptop. So i decided to copy files via card reader. Then i put the files. After it my sgy cannot recognize the sd card any more. Then i tried to read it in card reader but cant read also. Please helkp

Did you format the SD card in the card reader before copying your files to it?

juzz86 said:
did you format the sd card in the card reader before copying your files to it?
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i didnt reformat. Because i used that before. Then after it it doesnt read any more in my phone and in the card reader. Can i make it function again?

So the disk doesn't show up at all in 'My Computer' when you insert it?
Does it show up at all if you right-click 'My Computer', select 'Manage' and open 'Disk Management'?
If it doesn't, your SD card has a format issue. Try a low-level formatter like the Panasonic SD Card Formatter. If that fails, you could try formatting it in a Symbian Series 60 phone, like a Nokia. They have been proven to bring SD cards 'back to life'.
If none of these work, you most likely have a faulty/dead SD card

juzz86 said:
so the disk doesn't show up at all in 'my computer' when you insert it?
Does it show up at all if you right-click 'my computer', select 'manage' and open 'disk management'?
If it doesn't, your sd card has a format issue. Try a low-level formatter like the panasonic sd card formatter. If that fails, you could try formatting it in a symbian series 60 phone, like a nokia. They have been proven to bring sd cards 'back to life'.
If none of these work, you most likely have a faulty/dead sd card
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when i put the card reader well it shows removable disk e. But when double click it says please insert disk to drive e. I put the sd card in nokia x2-01 but it has password already but i didnt put any passwords. Ok ill try what you said. Thanks a lot

That's promising - you may be able to recover it via the Disk Management console

I am having this same issue, the sd does show up in disk management and I tell it to format fat32 and it begins the format but comes back with an error "Access is Denied"

Same for me, but for me it says its "Virtual Device Security-Fail No medium on unit" when I'm trying to format it through CMD. Also, my PC doesn't recognise the SD-card either, BUT it shows up in the list in CMD with diskpart and disk management. Is it possible to recover this?

Even though it's basic, make sure the write-protect switch on your SD adapter isn't on. That's the most common cause for 'access denied' errors.
If you have access to one, a Nokia Series 60 device is your best bet for recovering your cards. They have even been successful in recovering WP7 cards for me.
If that doesn't work, try a low-level formatting tool like the Panasonic formatter. If this still doesn't bring it back, you may be looking at new cards.
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SD Card Problem

I left my sd card in my XDA when i flashed it and now it will not read in the XDA or in my card reader. Anything i can do to sort it or is it a fried card?
Have you tried to format the card in an USB memory-card reader/writer ?
JiC
How do i do that? It will not detect a card?
tried pocket mechanics ?
Have now tried pocket mechanics but it says 'could not format with the specified cluster size'. Have also tried flash format but says it is unable to format as other programs are trying to read/write to the card. I have tried closing all other programs etc before running flash format.
Any other ideas? In my pc card reader it says no card is found.
Help!
maybe the card is dead i had a flash card die on me once for no good reason
guess 1 thing you could try is to put the card in a digital cam or some other device to see if that can format it

[Q] Blank SD Card or unsupported file system

I am so depressed right now!
My unrooted nexus one no longer wants to read my SD card. I get the "blank sd card or unsupported file system" notification.
I have tried 3 different sd cards, all reseated several times. All the cards work with computers with a card reader, I have tried factory resetting my phone, from the settings menu and from the "volume down + power" menu. The cards also work with various devices that support SD cards.
If i touch the notification it asks me to format my card, if i say yes it does nothing. If i go into settings I can't mount the sd card : the notification cycles through : "preparing sd card... sd card safe to remove... blank sd card...". If I have tried a format before trying to mount, the notifications do not appear/cycle.
If I try to read on my computer an SD card that I tried to format with my nexus one, the computer states that I need to format the card. Once I format it, it works fine.
I have tried to format with default windows utility as well as the official app you can find by googling "SD Formatter 3.0 for SD/SDHC/SDXC"
I think I have tried everything I can... I have a feeling that this is software related and it persists through wipes or the card reader on my phone is dead.
I don't know what else I can do other than ship it to HTC and before doing that I wanted to ask the community here...
try to format in windows as FAT32 or try to format from other model..say nokia?
mikomarco said:
try to format in windows as FAT32 or try to format from other model..say nokia?
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Tried that as well, forgot to mention
Bumping because I am desperate!

[Q] SD Card Problem

Can someone help me on this.. every time i plug my sd card to the PC it says "Format disk?" and when i plug it to my phone, it says "Blank Sd card". i can't reformat it and i can't access the files in my sd card..
i've tried several formatting tools, revery tools, but none of them work..
My sd card is SanDisk 2GB MicroSD card..
i Hope there is a solution..
There are a ton of threads on this. Search through and use a couple of them.
Sounds like you have a bad card or your are not unmounting the card in your phone.
Some viruses and rootkits will prevent your pc from formatting or recognizing external media. Verify your computer can recognize other cards.
yeah i know there are lots of threads about this.. but , no luck, non of them work..i plugged it at other devices and still the same.. xD w/c means sandisk is bad?
ivanmnx078 said:
Can someone help me on this.. every time i plug my sd card to the PC it says "Format disk?" and when i plug it to my phone, it says "Blank Sd card". i can't reformat it and i can't access the files in my sd card..
i've tried several formatting tools, revery tools, but none of them work..
My sd card is SanDisk 2GB MicroSD card..
i Hope there is a solution..
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same **** happened to me..(twice!) and appaerantly there isn't any easy way to recover an sd card from that state. Easiest (though most expensive) solution is to just buy a new one..
Yep - sounds like its broke. BUT consider that back in the day a floppy disk would run you $1 or $2. If you scaled that up a 2gb card would cost $1,400 to $2,800.
Makes me want to go backup.
sound like its broken, but try to use minitool partition wizard.
use this settings:
-Choose Create as Primary.
-Patrition type Ext2
-Cluster size 4Kb Cluster size 4Kb

Recovering an "Adopted" SD Card?

Hi folks,
I have an SD card here that I was using for Adopted Storage but I've managed to get it stuck as an "adopted" card and can't seem to get it back functioning as a normal SD card
Long story short... I wiped the device the card was in but I didn't "unadopt" the SD card before hand - as in set it back to portable mode. While the device could recognise there was an SD card afterwards, it couldn't prepare it for use and suggested a card error or something to that effect.
I figured I'd just pop it in my laptop (Windows 10 x64) and re-format it but this didn't work. Failing this, I decided I'd "nuke" it using Minitools Partition Wizard. While this program had better luck identifying the card, could display and delete the partitions on it and could run the Wipe task - it had no effect on the card... the partitions just re-appear after any attempt to nuke them!
Has anyone any ideas about how I can restore this card back to a normal FAT formated SD card?
Just to clarify - I don't care for the data that might be on it... I just want the card back usable
Thanks
Recovering an "Adopted" SD Card?
The best solution for now would be to plug the sd card into a phone with android 6.0 so that the phone can read the card and then while setting it up,you can format the card as "normal "(the part where it asks you whether to use the card as in adaptive storage or for accessing files).
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Cruzy12100 said:
The best solution for now would be to plug the sd card into a phone with android 6.0 so that the phone can read the card and then while setting it up,you can format the card as "normal "(the part where it asks you whether to use the card as in adaptive storage or for accessing files).
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When I try this, I get "Unsupported SanDisk SD card"
I'm then asked to select either Portable or Internal and then Erase & Format but neither work. They fail at 20% and the message "Unsupported SanDisk SD card" is shown again
I'm a bit stumped. I thought surely the encryption used on adopted cards was only to stop external reads. It seems in this case it's stopping me from writing to or formating the card
Running out of options

problem formatting SD card

Hi All,
I have a problem with my SD card. (Sandisk 32gb).
The SD card was used in an android phone and formatted as internal storage, which I'm guessing encrypts the data as well.
In order to use another card in the phone, the card was removed and 'forgotten' in the phone (yeah... not very smart...)
I have already come to terms with the fact that my data is now lost forever, since the key for the encrypted data was deleted. I'm trying to reformat the card so I can use it again.
The problem: I can't format the SD card.
I've tried the following solutions, which did not work:
- Try to format the SD card using the phone. -> this gives an error message.
- Try to format the SD card using a computer:
The card doesn't show up in explorer, so I worked around using EaseUS partition master, when I try to wipe the disk, or when I try to delete partitions, I get an error. When I do a surface check, the program crashes.
- Try to clear the SD card using DiskPart, which gives a 'Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)' error.
What else could I try?
If you format your SD card directly from a PC, your choices are NTFS (which an Android device can't read) or FAT32 (inefficient & doesn't support files greater than 4G).
The best way to format an SD card is using the official SD Card Formatter from the SD Association:
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
This will format the card as exFAT which is supported by Android, while maximizing storage space.. Download, install, format, enjoy!
EEngineer said:
If you format your SD card directly from a PC, your choices are NTFS (which an Android device can't read) or FAT32 (inefficient & doesn't support files greater than 4G).
The best way to format an SD card is using the official SD Card Formatter from the SD Association:
This will format the card as exFAT which is supported by Android, while maximizing storage space.. Download, install, format, enjoy!
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Thank you EEngineer for reacting so quickly!
I've tried the SD card formatter you recommended. However, although the card is recognised by my computer, it is not assigned a drive letter for some reason (I've tried to give it one using disk management, without success (it basically gives a cyclic redundancy check error every time I try to do anything with it)) and it doesn't show up in explorer. It follows that my card is not recognised by the formatting program, and so I can't get it to work.
My hypothesis is that the phone has formatted the card so that it cannot be read by my computer anymore and then threw away the key, so that it cannot be read by anything anymore. (which really sucks, because there's probably nothing wrong with the hardware of the card, and yet I'm going to have to throw it away if I can't get it to work)
Any other ideas?
Josh458 said:
Hi All,
I have a problem with my SD card. (Sandisk 32gb).
The SD card was used in an android phone and formatted as internal storage, which I'm guessing encrypts the data as well.
In order to use another card in the phone, the card was removed and 'forgotten' in the phone (yeah... not very smart...)
I have already come to terms with the fact that my data is now lost forever, since the key for the encrypted data was deleted. I'm trying to reformat the card so I can use it again.
The problem: I can't format the SD card.
I've tried the following solutions, which did not work:
- Try to format the SD card using the phone. -> this gives an error message.
- Try to format the SD card using a computer:
The card doesn't show up in explorer, so I worked around using EaseUS partition master, when I try to wipe the disk, or when I try to delete partitions, I get an error. When I do a surface check, the program crashes.
- Try to clear the SD card using DiskPart, which gives a 'Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)' error.
What else could I try?
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Have you tried fdisk command?
There has been some time in between posts. Sorry for that. I really appreciate you helping me out.
I'm quite keen to get this issue resolved, since if I don't I've just wasted some money...
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Have you tried fdisk command?
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Yes, I have already tried fdisk. It resulted in the same error described above.
Josh458 said:
There has been some time in between posts. Sorry for that. I really appreciate you helping me out.
I'm quite keen to get this issue resolved, since if I don't I've just wasted some money...
Yes, I have already tried fdisk. It resulted in the same error described above.
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Try SD formatter for Windows, it has some tools to diagnose/repair SD cards.
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